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Performance, Art, and Politics in the African Diaspora: Necropolitics and the Black Body

Performance, Art, and Politics in the African Diaspora: Necropolitics and the Black Body

Beasley, Myron M.

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies

Art Criticism & TheoryGeneral SociologyPerformance Art

ISBN10: 0367136929
ISBN13: 9780367136925
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 29 2023
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora.

In this book, Myron M. Beasley situates artists as cultural workers and theorists who illuminate the political linkages between their own and others' specific locales. The focus is an interrogation of the political systems that dictate and determine the value of lives (and decide which lives matter) through a lens of performance and art. Beasley highlights how the performances of rupture, which are of artistic, and historical significance, reveal both strategies of survival and promises of possibility. Artists and curators examined include Jelili Atiku, Giscard Bouchotte, Nona Faustine, Vanessa German, Simone Leigh, Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Ebony G. Patterson, and Dianne Smith.

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